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Digital System Designer

Digital System Designer

CompanyPsiQuantum
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA
Salary$117000 – $158000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline.
  • 4+ years of relevant work or academic research preferred.
  • Strong critical thinking, creative, innovative, analytical, and detail oriented problem-solving skills.
  • Team player with an ability to work effectively across departments and time-zones.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences.
  • Confirmed python programmer who strives to write clear code in the context of a small team of contributors.
  • Pro-active, with the ability to work independently with limited direction, in a fast-moving start-up environment.

Responsibilities

  • Devising algorithms and methods to solve various time-critical tasks which take place in the data-plane of an optical quantum computer and charting a path to their hardware implementation.
  • Defining the hardware primitives for the algorithm.
  • Gathering and translating high-level requirements into digital designs actionable by other digital-design experts.
  • Working closely with digital designers to arbitrate design choices and optimize designs to meet algorithmic performance while matching latency, throughput and footprint constraints.
  • Write python models to be integrated in our proprietary discrete-time-event simulation tool.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Distributed system experience: involving event correlation from multiple sources, under real-time constraints.
  • Worked with Hardware Definition Languages (e.g, VHDL, Verilog).
  • Worked with High Level Synthesis tools (e.g Xilinx Vitis).
  • Background in photonics.